Ronan, Washington

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Starbuck census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99328. The Survey maps it on the Dayton quadrangle.

Ronan within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1937 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:96000
1942 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Clarkston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ronan between 2014 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Columbia County Fire Districts	INC 994
12 August 2014	Natural	100 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BMIDC INC 914 - CORRAL HOLLOW
18 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MUSTARD HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ronan: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dayton	Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gaines Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hester Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Whetstone	2.4 miles	13
Dayton	3.8 miles	14
Patit	3.9 miles	16
Baileysburg	4.7 miles	14
Turner	4.9 miles	14
Covello	4.9 miles	14
Long	7.4 miles	10
Mountain Home Park	8.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511269. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.